Luann de Lesseps is getting candid about her dating history and she's taking it back to where it all began — senior prom.
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While getting candid about dating in her 50s, the Real Housewives of New York City alum, 59, recalled back to when she was a teenager and revealed that she lost her virginity while attending the high school dance.
Describing herself as a "late bloomer," de Lesseps revealed to Bustle that she "didn't feel confident" in much of her teens and never really had a "boyfriend or have sex until I was 18 years old." After years of being "taller than all the boys," she said she didn't lose her virginity until her senior prom.
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"I calculated it. We had sex in the car, which is so prom," she shared. "Jim was older than me but he was very handsome and sweet. I thought he was the perfect guy to lose my virginity to because he was good-natured. So that was a great experience, actually. Then it just went on from there: the love affair with boys."
Nowadays, the Bravolebrity said she dates "like a man" and knows exactly what she wants when it comes to romance. De Lesseps added that she was able to secure her first marriage to her ex-husband Count Alexandre de Lesseps through her sense of confidence.
"It had a lot to do with confidence. If you don’t think you’re great, nobody is going to think you’re great," she said.
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De Lesseps and Alexandre were married for 16 years before calling it quits in 2009. She and her second husband, Tom D’Agostino married on Dec. 31, 2016, in a lavish, three-day celebration in Palm Beach, Florida but filed for divorce in August 2017.
"I’m living my best cougar life right now," the reality star told Bustle of dating. "The 30-somethings and 40-somethings are into my stuff. The 50-somethings are like, “Oh, s---, I’m 50. I have to date a 20-year-old.' And the 60-year-olds have a problem in the, as Ramona [Singer] would call it, “lower level.”
